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Definition of Incarnadining
1. incarnadine [v] - See also: incarnadine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incarnadining
Literary usage of Incarnadining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Naturalism in English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1920)
"... and, incarnadining earth, the blood of Abel crying for vengeance—evil inevitable,
hopeless evil, doomed to go on, doubling itself for ever. ..."
2. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From by John Campbell Campbell (1880)
"Roger North would make us believe that the dying Guilford was horrified by the
effusion of blood which was now incarnadining the western counties by command ..."
3. The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755: Under Major by Winthrop Sargent, Robert Orme, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1855)
"Behind the western hills their sun had sunk for evermore, incarnadining in his
parting rays the bright current of the Mo- ..."
4. Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal edited by Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads (1851)
"The red blood of the monster gushes forth, " incarnadining" the waves. "
Back water," shouts the harpooner, as the whale writhes with the pain, ..."
5. A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1847)
"... of life—the maimings—the slaughters—the devastation of the outraged earth and
the incarnadining of the violated seas—the widows made—the fatherless— the ..."
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